Protesting Teachers Block Mexico City Airport

Thousands From a Radical Union Faction Demand the Repeal of a Newly Passed Education Law

By

José de Córdoba

Sept. 5, 2013 8:46 p.m. ET

MEXICO CITY—Thousands of teachers from a radical union faction Thursday blocked access to Mexico City's international airport for a second time in three weeks as they protested a newly passed law that requires teachers to undergo periodic evaluations, exposing some of them to dismissal.

Lines of helmeted police with riot shields faced off against the teachers, who shouted slogans and wielded metal staves ripped from a barricade. The teachers, members of the National Coordinator of Educational Workers, or CNTE, snarled...